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A. J. E. READIO.

CAR SEAT.

Patented Sept. 25, 1883.

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CAR SEAT.

. No 285,678. Patented Sept. 25, 1883.

WTTNEEEZEI I INK/ENTER UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ARTHUR J. E. READIO, OF PAWTUCKET, RHODE ISLAND.

CAR-SEAT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 285,678, dated September 25, 1883. Application filed February 21,188 3. (No model.)

- and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

This invention has reference to an improvement in seatsfor railroad-cars; and it consists in the peculiar and novel construction of a railroad-car seat, by which the same can be readily reversed and changed from a winter to a summer seat, as will be more fully set forth hereinafter.

The comfort of passengers in railroad-cars depends materially on the nature of the settee in which'the traveler has to spend so much time. In cold weather a softly-upholstered seat and back are a convenience and luxury which warm weather changes to a torture.

To readily change the nature of the seat and back of a setteeor car-seat, 'and convert the soft-cushioned seat into a cooler, if harder, seat, at pleasure, is the object of this inven tion.

Figure l is a perspective view of my improved reversible. seat. Fig. 2 is a sectional view of the same. Fig. 3 is alongitudinal sectional view of the back, and Fig. 4 a transverse sectional view of the same.

In the drawings, A represents the summer seat of the settee, and B the summer back of the same. They may be made in any of the well-known styles, such as cane, strips of wood, perforated wood, rigidly-upholstered leather, or any other suitable material by which a cool summer seat and back are secured.

0 is the upholstered soft winter seat, and D the softly-cushioned winter back, both covered with some warm material.

E E are the ends of the car-seat or settee,

and F F the string-pieces connecting the same. 4 5

G G are the arms by which the back is hinged to the ends E E, so as to beswung from one side to the other. g

The seats A and G are made separately. The string-pieces F form the sides of a box or 0 frame. This frame may be attached to one of the seats, as A, by screws or the like; or both seats may be held to the string-pieces by hooks, as hereinafter described. Attached to one of the seats (see Fig. 2) are two hooks, h, having their openings in the direction of the length of the seat. Inside the frame F there are projecting pins or studs h, with which these hooks engage when the seat is to be secured to the frame. Vhen the seat is in position, the frame F rests on the ledges t" on the uprights E E. When the frame F and the seats are lifted out'from the uprights E E,'the seat 0 may be slid along the frame and the hooks h disengaged fromthe studs or catches h,- but when the seats are in place between said uprights the seat cannot be unhooked, being held from endwise movement.

As the whole settee is self-contained and can be readily changed from a winter to a su1n- 7o mer seat, it'is peculiarly well adapted to railway-cars making long journeys, as the seats may be quickly changed to suit the convenience of the passengers.

Having thus described my invention, I claim 7 5 I as new and desireto secure by Letters Patent- In a reversible car-seat, the combination of the upright standards, the seat 0, provided with hooks h, and the seat A, one of said seats having a cushioned, the other a hard,.'surface,

and the frame F, having projections h, as

shown, said hooks being adapted to engage the projections on the frame, as shown and described.

ARTHUR 'J. E. READIO.

Witnesses:

J. A. MILLER, Jr., M. F. BLIGH. 

